Colloquia - Spring 1997

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Americanization as the Creation of Oligopoly: The Case of Steel in Japan and Germany in the Postwar Era." Speaker is Gary Herrigel, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Descent Into Totebag Hell: Public Broadcasting and Its Commercial Activities." Speakers are Burton Weisbrod, Department of Economics and IPR Faculty Fellow and Craig LaMay, Medill School of Journalism.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Fairness and Equity Issues in State Child Support Programs for Low-Income Families." Speaker is David Betson, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame. Discussant is Leslie Moscow, Department of Economics, Northwestern University.

"Inside the Welfare Contract: Research at the Street Level." Speaker is Evelyn Brodkin, School of Social Service Adminsitration, University of Chicago. Discussant is Dan A. Lewis, School of Education and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Fellow.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "The Problem of Stability in Economic Exchange Relationships: The Implications of Embeddedness." Speaker is Brian Uzzi, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and Faculty Associate.

"The EITC and the Labor Supply of Married Couples." Speaker is Nada Eissa, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Discussant is Steve Davis, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

Title: IPR and Department of SociologyDescription: "Questions of Power: Women Living in Mixed-Income Housing." Speaker is Cathy Flynn, Program in Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University and Angela Irvine, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Social Science Research and Social Policy: How They Connect from the Perspective of a Foundation Administrator." Speaker is Paul E. Lingenfelter, Vice President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Title: Poverty and PolicyDescription: "It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty." Speaker is Rebecca Blank, Department of Economics and IPR Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University, and Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research. Discussant is Larry Lynn, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Social Experimentation in the Policy Sciences: Problems Solved (and to be Solved)." Speaker is William Shadish, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, and IPR Visiting Scholar.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "The Power of Capital: Corporate Governance and Corporate Strategy in the U.S. and Europe at the Turn of the Century." Speaker is Colleen Dunlavy, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.